Former DPP attacks Serious Fraud Office over Tchenguiz brothers

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The Serious Fraud Office was accused today by a former prosecutions chief of
“blatantly untrue misrepresentations” to a judge when it applied for search
warrants of the Tchenguiz brothers’ premises.

Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, former Director of Public Prosecutions, said
that the SFO was guilty of presenting a completely false picture when it obtained
warrants for its dawn raids on premises of the Tchenguiz brothers.

The QC, who is acting for Robert Tchenguiz, said that the SFO had alleged that
nearly £1 billion had been taken out of the collapsed Icelandic bank,
Kaupthing, and put into their hands — although